Last Tuesday when I was walking the show floor at the MySQL conference, I ran into a familiar
name, Jennifer Venable. I had never met Jennifer
before but we had traded mails and had spoken on the phone.
This was about 18 months ago when we were negotiating the renewal
of Sun's contract as an Authorized Distributor of Red Hat.
At that time, Jennifer was the Red Hat lawyer working on the
contract.

Well since that time Jennifer has escaped from the Red Hat legal
ranks and has joined the business side where, as of a couple of
months ago, she took over …

This past week I was out in the Bay Area for the MySQL Conference and Expo. I hit the
pre-event parties and attended the
conference's opening day. The first day featured a great
set of opening keynotes from Marten Mickos, Jonathan Schwartz and
Werner Vogel, CTO of Amazon.

Earlier this week I attended the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit,
serendipitously held here Austin. It was a fantastic
opportunity to meet a lot of the people in the community whom I
hadn't met before as well as to catch up with old friends.

Yesterday I chatted with Jay Pipes at his home in the Buckeye
State. Jay is the North American community manager for
MySQL and very recent Sun employee. We chatted about whats
up in the world of MySQL and all about the MySQL Conference thats
coming up in 10 days (April 14-16, in Santa Clara).

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